67 C10 with Camaro running gear

Blacksheep10 said:
Looking through my manual again, one of the wires in the cab extra wire input/output harness is a purple wire for a brake switch. There is a chance it was looking for the brake switch to be activated instead of a clutch to let it fire. 🤷‍♂️
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That's funny. Engine cranking on my Painless harness is done through a purple wire.
It connects to the key switch, runs through the park/reverse switch, then runs to the starter solenoid.
 
No such safety of any type from psi, there is not a start wire even involved with the harness or ECU, only an ignition wire to let it know when the key is on.
 
Ordered a hand brake and a shifter. Going direct mount. No way I could shorten the stock one enough to get it forward enough.

Inner fender thoughts? Mount to body or frame? There’s movement between the 2. Body mounted there is a strut tower and strut in the way.
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I can build a box around the air filter for a splash guard, otherwise I’m not sure what else is going to need it. Hopefully it doesn’t get driven in bad weather much but going down to gravel Road if it is sticky at all will throw **** literally everywhere
 
gt1guy said:
Can you modify the stock ones to work?
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I don’t believe so, I think they cut the corner too quickly and are too rounded on the inside to stuff that big square tire up in there. Plus the Shock tower is pretty intrusive. Still likely going to try and see
 
Boxed in the reliefs for back of heads in firewall, the main harness pass through will go in the pass footwell box out.
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Swung by my buddy’s to help him on wobble stoppers for his trailing arms to get ready to spectate KOH. He is about done building a car for a buddy he trades work with (he’s an excavator as well, car guy is a concrete flat work guy.) didn’t get pics of his truck, tube chassis 55 truck, fleet side. 6.0 turbo, 4l80 fmvb, co/bypass front and rear, cool rig.
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Saw this truck mid day, told him I’d come when he got off work, be waiting when he got home. He don’t reply until after dark, I still rolled out 1:15 away. Snowing, truck kept going into limp mode for rail pressure. Have FASS with new filters and winter fuel 🤷‍♂️
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He took 2500, drove on the trailer. No idea why I need it. I wanted it though
 
Bought a knockoff version of the Eastwood flare tool linked earlier, thing is ***s. Bought a couple little benders as well. Got lines done for the front and ran for rear to above trans to the hand brake. First time I’ve had a better bender than the one I got at oriellys 20years ago.
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Welded box outs, got column clearanced in firewall and bearing on/splines welded in end of column shaft. It now uses the Camaro upper joint there, lower is of course stock on rack. Slip is from some steering shaft from who knows when/where in my stash.
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Got fans back on, pigtails soldered on, more pedal work, harness work, tons of small non pic worthy crap. Want as much done under the cab as possible before we set it back on.
 
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Way more small crap, steering done, more wires and brake lines ran etc, nothing pic worthy really
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The MC is M12x1.50 thread inverted flare. I was planning on just screwing a step down adapter in and going to 3/16 right away. That adapter is elusive. Still looking but also thinking salvage the nuts off the stock lines, flare some 1/4 line and run it down to the master where there is a step down adapter 1/4>3/16 going the opposite way as it would at the master.
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Blacksheep10 said:
Way more small crap, steering done, more wires and brake lines ran etc, nothing pic worthy. The MC is M12x1.50 thread inverted flare. I was planning on just screwing a step down adapter in and going to 3/16 right away. That adapter is elusive. Still looking but also thinking salvage the nuts off the stock lines, flare some 1/4 line and run it down to the master where there is a step down adapter 1/4>3/16 going the opposite was as it would at the master.
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If the master cylinder has machined faces where the lines screw in you can use regular fittings and copper washers. I did that on my SxS so I could run 3/16 line from the master out
 
SLOWPOKE693 said:
If the master cylinder has machined faces where the lines screw in you can use regular fittings and copper washers. I did that on my SxS so I could run 3/16 line from the master out
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"regular fittings"? That have M12x1.50 male threads and 3/8-24 female IF? But aren't IFM on the big side?
 
Quick search turns up nothing for me, will dig more.
ETA, can find the proper Male that goes in the MC to AN pretty easily, that would be the other option, have flex lines AN style from MC down to prop valve.
Edit Edit, fittings are $35, lines are $16 for the pair, that fixes my worries about movement between cab and frame hurting lines and needing to make a curly q down to prop valve
 
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Said **** it, $62 for SS lines that have flex in them, AN3. Those M12 IFM fittings are rare as ****. Verified threads about 3 different ways. Screwed an M12x1.50 bolt into the master, measured with calipers, screwed fittings into a nut etc.
Hoses and 3/8-24 to an3 are half the cost of M12x1.50 inverted flare to an3.
 
budget76 said:
I was tempted to run stainless braided lines too when I was trying to mix and match GM and Ford ****. you burn a ton of time finding the right damn fittings and adapters, or at least trying to
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I’ve not been skunked this bad in a long time. I still haven’t found a m12x1.50 MIF to 3/8-24 FIF. Oh wells, parts on the way. Unfortunately the m12 to AN adapters are a week out.
 
It’s within an inch, will make the final one later. Lots of stuff that was supposed to be here Friday showing up in the next 3 days. Can finally finish some systems like coolant/steering/clutch. Brake parts should be by Thursday as well. Clutch will be a big one, can start and move it around a bit if needed.
 
Buddy I mentioned I swung by to help on the prerunner 55 a week or 2 ago said again he has spare seats and bunks at KOH, Boy has never been and he'll only be 16 once, so the booked a way too expensive 2.5 days in the desert with rental car. Buddy has an X3, his 55 with 2 seats, and a pioneer 1000 5 seat for the 3 of them (him, his 18 YO son and his employee about our age) plus 2 dirt bikes. plenty of ways to get around. Trip is 2k taken away from truck budget, but can't buy time either so take the trip I guess.
Time to pull back off the truck and pack/help buddy prep the semi and toys for out there. ****, wish I'd bought the cheaper admission tickets a week or more back, $300 for a pair of people :eek: Fly in Thursday evening to ONT and back out Sunday. Ford F150ish for 3 days is $180, not horrible. Announcer Miles is giving me his Jeep for the days while I'm out there.
Brake fittings for M12x1.50 to AN3 came in........well one of them did. The other is an M10x1.25. ****. I checked my order, sold individually, quantity of 2 ordered. They just dropped the wrong ****. I guess 50% of the time they're right this time. Sent message, hope for the best. My clutch fitting that was scheduled for who knows when because USPS was in limbo, so I ordered one from Summit that was supposed to be here Wednesday/Thursday.......Now it says Friday. Betting both my Ebay mystery one and my Summit one show Friday.
Shocks are together and mocking up. With Minimum preload, just enough for A arm clearance and the top of the shock almost in the bed floor, I've got the tabs cut, have not tacked on yet, that will happen after lunch.
Cutting brake is mounted. Front bed mount tubes are installed and Welded in. Some exhaust is tacked up, awaiting bed install to see where battery/mufflers go and then can finish the routing. I'll attach pics off my phone at some point.
Starting to burn out a bit on this project, I know Amazon has spoiled us in years past when you could have stuff next day most of the time if City adjacent. With the way things are going these days, I'll have to learn how to plan ahead again! :laughing::homer:
 
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